How we checked National Public Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 3 things about this entry. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
This is the NPR Program Stream, the network's own round-the-clock national feed rather than any single local station. It replays NPR's programmes shortly after they have gone out on member stations, so you hear the morning and afternoon news magazines, the interview shows and the weekend panel programmes in sequence, and the running order is set aside for live coverage when a big story breaks. It is news, interviews and cultural reporting throughout, produced in Washington DC.
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NPR | 2026 |
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Contact route
a "Contact & Help" link in the footer of every npr.org page leading to NPR's own Audience Help portal, which presents a topic-routed contact hub with categories including "Something I heard or read", "News tip or story idea", "NPR departments", "Technical assistance", "Donations and NPR+" and "The Sunday Puzzle", each opening a submission form; the portal's own sitemap also lists a contact page and a post-submission thank-you page, the site carries a corrections page, and NPR links its own Facebook and Instagram accounts
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NPR Audience Help (help.npr.org) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://help.npr.org/contact/s/
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NPR Audience Help (help.npr.org) | 2026 |
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Music
News and talk, not a music station
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NPR | 2026 |
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Language
English
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NPR | 2026 |
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Kind
Talk
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NPR | 2026 |
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Where
npr.org publishes no frequency of its own anywhere; its own mission page says NPR works "in partnership with Member Stations" and that it provides satellite interconnection for the entire public radio system, which is a distribution link to affiliates rather than a broadcast frequency, and the site does not call itself online only either
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NPR, Our Mission and Vision | 2026 |
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On air
Morning Edition, Leila Fadel, Steve Inskeep, Michel Martin and A Martinez; All Things Considered, Ailsa Chang, Juana Summers, Mary Louise Kelly and Scott Detrow; Wild Card, Rachel Martin
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NPR | 2026 |
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Programmes
Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Weekend Edition Sunday, Up First, Here and Now, Fresh Air, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Wild Card with Rachel Martin, It's Been a Minute, Embedded
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NPR | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| country code |
US
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Filed under AS (American Samoa), which is wrong. The stored stream resolves to npr-ice.streamguys1.com/live.mp3, which NPR's own site identifies as the NPR Program Stream, the network's national feed produced in Washington DC. There is no NPR member station in American Samoa, so this is not a local member station. |
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en
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Language was empty. NPR's national programming is in English. |
| homepage url |
https://www.npr.org/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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No homepage was stored. Fetched https://www.npr.org/ and it returned HTTP 200 with NPR's own front page, title 'NPR - Breaking News, Analysis, Music, Arts and Podcasts'. The matching stream page is npr.org/about-npr/472557877/npr-program-stream, also fetched and live. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| the bare /contact/s/contact address from the portal sitemap | opened on its own it answers "Contact Form Not Found" because it needs a topic, so the hub URL above is the working entry point
source |
| a frequency borrowed from any NPR member station | NPR is a network, its own pages state none, and the briefing is right that borrowing one would misdescribe it
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: National Public Radio — listed via Radio Browser